A WORRIED father has told of his horror after his 14-year-old son was stabbed in the face with a knife and robbed while waiting for a train at Wokingham station.

A WORRIED father has told of his horror after his 14-year-old son was stabbed in the face with a knife and robbed while waiting for a train at Wokingham station.

The man, who does not wish to be named, said his son and a friend were attacked by a 15-strong gang of youths last Friday when his son was slashed in the nose with the utility knife.

The pair had enjoyed an evening out in Bracknell before they got off at Wokingham to buy a drink and then continue their journey back home to Woodley.

But as they waited for their connecting train, the mixed sex gang — all believed to be in their teens — surrounded the pair and demanded their jewellery at about 9pm on Friday.

He said: "One of them said something to my son's mate and then laid into him.

"He then asked for my son's ring from his finger or he would get the same.

"As he was taking it off they laid into both of them, kicking them about the head.

"One of them then pulled out a utility knife and stabbed my son. They stabbed him in the nose just a couple of inches from his eye.

"One of the girls in the gang screamed and a security guard from the station came out to see what was going on.

"The group then fled and my son and his mate were left slumped on the chairs there."

The unprovoked attack left the teenager needing hours of emergency surgery at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading.

His father added: "It makes me feel quite sick really, my son and his mate — who is also 14 — were sitting there waiting for a train, doing nothing to provoke anyone, and this lot come up and cause trouble.

"They could both have been killed.

"It could quite easily have been my son's sight or his life."

The boy also suffered a broken tooth in the attack, which required emergency dental surgery as "it was broken upwards towards the gum and had the nerve hanging out".

A British Transport Police spokesman confirmed the attack happened, but was unable to comment further at the time of going to press.